Chapter 10 with Faberry and...something more ! Thanks for eveyone who is still reading this, I know Faberry being together as together is taking time, but it's the way it has to be. I always find it hard to believe in a story when Quinn basically kiss Rachel after one chapter, I mean hello she is not openly gay or bi, she had to figure out who she is and what it mean to her and...there's still Russell Fabray and the pressure of school and all. So yeah.
The next chapters are already planned, and I usally stick to the plans but sometimes I like to add it a little more, and then...well hello angst.
I still don't own Glee, and I pray for Rachel to leave Lima for New York and Finn to join the Army or the sharks in the sea.
Enjoy !
Chapter 10 : Underdog (Look At The Mess You Made)
It was the end of the day and Rachel was kind of exausted, she just wanted to go home after all the drama and her audition, she was drained. But she still had one hour of Glee to went through, so as she stepped in the empty choir room, she sighed and took a seat.
The tik tok of the watch on the wall was the only sound in the room, her muscles started to relax and her eyes closed slowly. She found herself at peace, but then the noise surrounded her again as everyone entered in the room. She groaned a little rubbing her eyes.
Finn arrived with Mike and Puck, he smiled at her and took the seat next to her.
Mr Schue clapped his hands las usual, Rachel rolled her eyes at the lack of originality of the teacher. Well, when you see him everyday with jackets you are used to not expect something surprising from him.
"Okay guys for today I just want everyone to have fun, so if someone wants to sing something just rollin' in front of the room and sing it with your heart !" He smiled at the room who cheered, for once happy with the assignement. Rachel sighed again and rested her head on Finn's shoulder.
The first one to sing was Puck who took his guitar with him. He smiled at his friends and started to play.
Rachel never heard the song before so she was happy to hear it, always wanting to hear more music as possible, and the fact that it was playing with an acoustic guitar was refreshing and peaceful.
Oh I know something you don't
It comes and goes
Like the strenght in your bones, woah
To keep your mind at rest
I'll never let the two of us be friends
Does that hurt ?
It was catchy and Puck's voice suited it in a nice way, Rachel smiled looking at the boy who was obviously having fun. At the chorus started everyone started to clap in rythme.
Underdog,
Just look at the mess you made
It's such a shame, a shame,
We had to find out this way
Noah walked around the room with a smile on his lips, he winked at Rachel who laughed softly. Finn frowned but then saw that his friend was just having fun so he let it go and enjoyed the rest of the song.
Puck was going to start singing the second verse when Sue Sylvester walked into the room, making everyone stop clapping.
Mr Schue was seated next to the piano, he frowned at the kids then looked at the door. Noah stopped playing and narrowed his eyes at the new person in the room
"Well well well, what do we have here today ?" said Sue with a content smile. Rachel let go of Finn's arm and was about to ask why the woman was interruping, but one look from her teacher made her stop.
Mr Schue was about to say something, but then the fire alarm went off, everyone looked around at each other. Sue was certainly not expecting this to cut her off of her little parade. She groaned and walked out of the room, walking fast. Mr Schue told everyone to stay calm and walk out. Everyone said as asked, and stepped out of the choir room. Finn took Rachel's hand, clinging into him. Santana and Brittany were just behind, the tall cheerleader was completely scared, Santana was carressing her hand and telling her that it was nothing. Everyone followed.
When they stepped outside of school, some students were still there. Because Glee was an extra hour so luckily most of the students had already left. As the grouped outside Rachel caught Quinn and the Skanks looking at the doors, a cigarette between her lips. Mack was holding a bag on her hand like the rest of the Skanks. Rachel frowned and as she was about to say something to Mr Schuester who had just joined them outside, Coach Sylvester stepped out too and then in five seconds, the skanks moved to take whatever they had on their bags.
Quinn was looking at Sue, not moving, she looked like a predator ready to run and kill her pray.
As Sue voice, Rachel looked at the teacher who in a fraction of seconds was being hit by eggs. Mr Schue had a look of surprise on his face, his mouth open in a O. Well, the same expression could be seen on the New Directions members faces.
The students around looked the same way as them, then one of them started to laugh. The skanks followed just behind, cheering at their own actions. Santana cracked up first in the team and then Puck, and everyone followed. Only Rachel stayed silent, she was speechless by Quinn and Skanks behavior.
Sue was trying to step back into the school but then Quinn quickly walked toward her climbing the few steps. She held her hand in the air to make the Skanks stop, and they did.
Sue slowly looked at Quinn with fury in her eyes, but was taken aback by Quinn's eyes.
Her hazel eyes looked dark and unexpressive, her cigarette still between her lips.
"The hell Fabray ? I thought you were in this with me !" yelled Sue in Quinn's face.
The girl reached slowly at her cigarette and throwed it aside. She didn't smiled or anything.
"Yeah I know what I said. But like a said to you, I'm not affraid of you anymore." A smirk appeared, "And I still got nothing left to lose."
Sue blinked at her and her face turned into an angry and insane expression, she opened her mouth to yell some more, but Quinn took her by the arm. She looked straight into the teacher eyes.
"You need to leave Glee Club the hell alone. And It's not a proposition you can refuse." Her voice was low and raspy. "I want you to stop being mean to them because if you don't..." Quinn nodded with her head toward the back. Everyone looked to see Mack broke Sue Sylvester window's car with a baseball bat.
"See, I am not jocking. Next time it won't be only your window, got it ?" said Quinn with a dangerous smile.
"Figgins is gonna hear about all of this preggers, believe me, you are going to pay for what you just did." Quinn laughed a low laugh and cocked her head to the side.
"Really Coach ? You can go run straight to his office and tell him, but there will be concequences for you too." She licked her lips and smiled, "I'm sure Figgins will be happy to hear that my father is reconsidering his monthly donation to McKinley High." Sue eyes widdened in realisation at what her ex-cheerios had just meant by that. "You remember that Russell Fabray is still paying for a big part of the money you spent for the Cheerios, right ?" Quinn let go of Sue's arm and slowly turned to join the Skanks.
Sue stood there only blinking in confusion, wondering if all of this really happened. Then realizing that everyone was still looking at her, she yelled some insanities and walked off toward her car and drove away from the parking.
Mr Schue told everyone to just go home, that the journey had been reached a point of nothing made sense.
Mike and Tina walked away with Mercedes and Kurt looking at Quinn, whispering to each other. Puck walked away with the two cheerios, Finn stood there waiting for Rachel. He took her by the hand, but she was still looking at Quinn who had her back turned at her. Mack was telling her something, then Quinn turned her head and catched Rachel looking at her.
Rachel wanted to go and ask Quinn what had just happened, but Quinn turned her head and walked away with the Skanks toward their respective cars. Mack joined the pink haired girl and they drove out together in the same car. Rachel almost groaned again the same way she had in the cafetaria earlier.
She let Finn drive her home, and during all the time she was in the car she couldn't help but really asking herself if Quinn and the Mack were...dating or sleeping together.
In Quinn's car the only sound who could ne heard was coming from the radio. A random Nada Surf song was being played and the Mack was humming to it and sometimes singing some lyrics. Quinn was driving, she was silent even if her mind was a noisy mess. She taped her fingers on the wheel thinking about what she just had done.
She didn't know if she felt guilty about doing it or just guilty to even had the idea in the first place.
After her meeting with Coach in the girls bathroom, she had told Mack that this woman was insane and she really didn't wanted to help her ruin Glee. But then she had this idea in her mind and she felt kind of excited about it. Because Sue was such a bad woman sometimes that she couldn't help but want to make her pay for what she had done to her in the past two years.
She had exposed her idea to Mack who had instantly accepted. She knew that her friend loved to be the bad girl and do bad girls things.
"Hey Quinn, you just passed out my house." Mack voice startled her, she gulped and frowned.
"Yeah..hm sorry I was just thinking you know." she said, the girl next to her stayed silent then she spoke.
"About Berry ?" Quinn eyes got wide and she almost hitted the stop pedal. She looked at the girl in a glance with a what the heck was that question look.
"I'm not dumb Quinn. I know you have kind of a crush on her or don't know what." Quinn took a deep breath and laughed.
" I seriously don't know what you are talking about Mack. You need to stop smoking because.." Mack voice interupted her. "I said I'm not dumb Quinn, so stop it. I see the way you look at her every time." Mack looked out the window. She was getting upset about this, but most of all because Quinn was basically calling her stupid or insane.
Quinn looked at the girl at her right and sighed, "Look, I'm sorry but, I-I don't know what I feel anymore. I don't know what is this in the first place."
That was it, Mack closed her eyes and didn't said anything until Quinn pulled out on her driveaway. She reached for her bag in the back seat and was about to open the door when Quinn's hand on her arm made her stop.
"Please, don't be mad at me." Quinn voice was so weak and she didn't know why she felt so sad about Mack just leaving her like that without a word. Mack sighed and looked at her, " I am not mad at you Quinn." Quinn blinked the tears who was now clouding her vision. "You can't help the way you feel right ? I just don't want you to get hurt." Quinn lips trembled a little, "You-you are my friend okay ? I care about you and I always will."
Quinn nodded her head and squeezed Mack's arm slightly. Mack smiled at her and walked out of the car.
Quinn watched her go, resting her head on the wheel.
Why did she was feeling something for Rachel ? Why ? She never saw herself as gay or bisexual but, everytime she locked eyes with the tiny diva she couldn't help but feel a warm feeling on the pit of her stomach. Did it was what people call having butteflies ? It seemed so, but Quinn didn't wanted to feel that way. Because her life was already a big fuckin' mess and there was her father. If Russell heard about it, she was going to be sent to hell by his own bare hands.
In her room Rachel was trying to do her homeworks, but she couldn't concentrate longer than 10 seconds. She had so much questions running on her head right know, that everything else was impossible to do. She sighed and closed her eyes, tapping with the point of her pen on the desk. She heard her phone buzz near her a message. She ignored it. Then a second message came, she groaned and was about to read it when she heard her phone blaring 'Don't Rain On My Parade'.
"Hello, Rachel Berry speaking what could I do for you ?" she said not even looking at who was calling.
"Finally, did you read my messages ?" she smiled at the sound of Kurt's voice. "Hello to you too Kurt, and to answer your question no I didn't, but I was going to when you called me."
"Urgh girl I don't know how can you not just say a simple 'no' when is necessary." She smiled and had her mouth open to say something when Kurt cut her off.
"Did you know that if Quinn went all crazy on Sue Sylvester today it was because of Glee Club ?" As Kurt's words Rachel frowned and said.
"Why it's Glee Club fault ?" Kurt huffed in the phone. "Because apparently Coach Sylvester wanted to end Glee Club and she asked Quinn's help and she said yes." Rachel was lost here, "So, you are telling me that throwing eggs at Coach Sylvester was to end Glee Club ?" she could almost hear Kurt rolling his eyes through the phone.
"No Rachel, what I'm saying is that she did that to protect Glee Club and teach Sylvester a lesson." Rachel was once again speechless. Did Quinn really did that for the Glee Club ? Did she risked being expulsed from school for a Club she was not even a part anymore ?
"How do you know that Kurt ?" she asked with a small voice. " Because Puck heard it from Sheila who was talking about it with one of the Breadtstix waitress." She sighed, rubbing her eyes. "Do we need to thank her or...sing a song to her ?" asked Rachel.
Usually she was always the one with the ideas and knowing what to do in any situation, but right now she was completely out of words or plans. Kurt sighed in the phone too, "I don't know. Puck asked me the same question."
Rachel layed on her bed, resting her head on the pillow. She was beyond tired right now, She said to Kurt that they will figure it out tomorrow, they hang up and she let sleep hit her hard.
Tomorrow will be a new day, tomorrow she will see Quinn and maybe she will finally get the courage she needed to talk to her, to thank her or just..asking her why. Why she cared so much about her old friends and the being of the Glee Club. Rachel last though was that she hopped that the reason Quinn had done, was for Rachel. Silly right ? But Rachel was a dreamer, and for now that was Rachel's dream.
Mack stereo speakers were blaring some hard rock music, she was upset and she was tired. She had to much questions on her mind that she couldn't answer. No one was home as always, her dad probably out with his friends getting drunk and her little brother was with his girlfriend somewhere.
Right know, she couldn't help but think about Quinn and what they had done today. She didn't felt guilty or anything, she never liked Sue Sylvester in the first place and apparently she had been a bitch toward Quinn so, as always she had accepted to help her friend.
What she couldn't understand was why she felt so mad about the fact that Quinn didn't responded negatively to her when she had talked about her so obvious crush on Rachel Berry.
Quinn didn't said yes either, but still it had made Mack upset and now she just wanted to throw a punch in one of her bedroom's walls.
She jumped on her bed and layed there, letting the music give her some answer.
That had always been a thing she did. Everytime she wanted an answer the music seemed to help her. She was trying to concentrate on the song, when the next track started and she opened her eyes as the words reached her ears.
You don't want me, no
You don't need me
Like I want you, oh
Like I need you
And I want you in my life
And I need you in my life
She was looking at her ceiling, her heart beating furiously on her chest. She closed her eyes, trying to undertand.
You can't see me, no
Like I see you
I can't have you, no
Like you have me
Did she liked Quinn ? It seemed insane because they were friends and she never really liked someone before, not to the point of doing anything to this person by the way. She thought of the way she felt any time she saw her, what she felt at the sound of Quinn's voice and laught. She had nice times with her, they had been together all summer. Quinn seemed to felt secure around Mack's and Mack was happy to take care of someone. Quinn trusted her. Sheila and Ronnie always said that they looked like two siamese cats, always around each other. But, did she really liked Quinn that way ?
You can't feel me, no
Like I feel you
I can't steal you, no
Like you stole me
She tried to make the knot on her throat go away, but she couldn't. She wanted to cry because of so many reasons. Why did she was feeling this? Why Quinn ? They were friends, she didn't wanted to lose her friendship because of a crush. Wait, did she really thought that ?
Mack groaned, turning to her side. Yes, she had said it. In her mind out loud at least. As the last words of the songs turned her inside out, she knew one thing that was not questionable anymore.
She was falling for Quinn Fabray, her friend, who apparently felt something for Rachel Berry.
And I want you in my life
And I need you in my life
So what doyou think about all of this mess ? Maybe some of you are gonna be upset about the fact that Mack is crushing on Quinn but, its necessary for the rest of the story, believe me. Faberry is still there and it's not going to stop.
Songs used here : Underdog (acoustic version) by You Me At Six and You by The Pretty Reckless.
